The Search for Mysterious Higgs Boson"God Paricle"(CERN Update)

 

Search for Higgs boson often known as the “god particle” has reached its peak in the recent years but without any notable success. Higgs boson is a hypothetical elementary particle predicted by the standard model of physics. It is believed to be what gives object mass. Large Hadron Collider at CERN and the Fermilab’s tevatron (Illinois near Chicago) are the two major particle accelerators where the experiments for search of higgs boson are performed.

CERN officials reported before that there were hints in the data of higgs boson but not strong enough to lead to its discovery. Now CERN is to give another update in July about the discovery of the higgs boson.

The LHC lies in a tunnel 27 km long, with a depth of 574 ft beneath the France-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland. It fires particles opposite to each other inside the tunnel, powerful magnets are installed to control the collisions and detectors are attached inside the tunnel to control the collision.

If indeed a new particle is found it will take time and repeated experiments to confirm that it is higgs boson.